Fastening for gloves



(NO Model.)

y W; S. RICHARDSON.

FASTENING FOR GLOVES.

Patented Oct. 8, 1889.

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' UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTENING FOR GLOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,668, dated October 8, 1889.

' Application filed February 19, 1885. Serial IIo. 156,341. (No model.) i

T at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM S. RICHARD- SON,- a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Gloves and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specificatiomin explaining its nature.

The invention is an improvement on that described in my patent, No. 325,698, dated September 8, 1885, and the Mead patent, No. 325,688, dated September 8, .1885, and comprises a fastening for gloves and other articles, and it has as one member a cap-eyelet which is caused to take a rounded or spherical form, and which is attached to the material, ashereinafter specified, and as the other member a clasp or socket device of novel construction. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents in vertical section what is ordinarily knownas a cap-eyeletthat is, it is an eyelet having a flange at one end and which is closed at'the other by a rounded portion or section integral therewith. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of one form of washer which is used in converting thiscap-eyelet into aball member of the fastening. Fig. 3 represents another form of washer for this purpose. Fig. 4 shows one method of applying the cap-eyelet to the material to which it is attached, and with the washer in place. Fig. 5 shows in vertical section the same method of at tachmeut with the dish-shaped washer shown in Fig. 3 in place. Fig. 6 shows in vertical" section this member of the fastening after it has been submit-ted to a forming operation,

which changes its shape and at the same time secures it to the material. Fig. I is a plan View of a metal blank from which the clasp or socket member of the fastening is formed. Fig. 8 shows in vertical section the shape to" which this blank is bent or formed.

Fig. 9 is a plan view thereof inverted. Fig. 10 shows the clasp or socket fastening secured to the material by a pronged cap. Fig. 11 is a vertical section at right angles with that shown in Fig. 10. Fig. -12 shows the socket or clasp part secured to the cap by a cap-eyelet or tubular rivet. Fig. 13 represents in verticalsection the two members of the fastening together. Fig. 14 is a plan view of a blank which varies from that shown in Fig. 7 in one respect only, and Fig. 15 is a vertical central section at right angle to that of Fig. ll.

- A is the cap-eyelet. It comprises the tubular portion a, the flange a, and the cap a In forming the stud or ball member of the device and securing it in place, a hole is first formed in the material to which it is to be attached and the cap-eyelet passed through it, its flange a bearing upon one of the two surfaces of the material. I The washer b, having a hole of the size of the tubular part of the eyelet, is placed thereon to rest upon the other surface of the material, and I may use either the flat washer represented in Fig. 2 or the dish-shaped washer shown in Fig. 3, whose opening is somewhat contracted by flattening. The parts of the stud or ball member of the fastening thus assembled are then placed in a suitable holder and pressure is brought to bear upon the washer and upon the end or cap of the eyelet, which causes its sides above the washer to be expanded or pressed out laterally, thus somewhat shortening it, but enlarging its diameter and giving it the appearance of a ball or knob upon the end of a contracted neck or support.

In Figsa and 5 I show the parts as assembled,'but before they are submitted to the final forming operation, and in Fig. 6 I show the complete stud, of which a is the head and a the neck. Of course the shape that is given the upper surface of the stud will depend somewhat upon the shape of the surface of the hunter which is brought or moved against it.

The-other member of the fastening comprises the section 0 and a device for holding it or securing it to the material on which it is used. It is preferably made from a flat blank of sheet metal, which has formed therein the semicircular recess 0' at each end, and which has either the side recesses c or a central hole. This blank is bent to bring the recesses c opposite each other, as shown in Fig. 9, so that in cross-section it takes a Somewhat oval form, and this forms a clasp or socket having two jaws or yielding surfaces 0 which have the circular opening 0, through which the ball or other member of the fastening device is inserted. Of course these sides 0 yield only in two directions that is, toward and from each other on a straight line. I prefer to secure this clasp or socket in place by means of acap D,which has prongs d, that pass through the material and are turned into the recesses 0 formed in the upper edge of the section C, and are then folded upon the under surface of the upper portion of the section, or by passing the prongs through recesses as represented in Figs. 10, 11, and 15,01- by means of a tubular rivet or cap-eyelet d, which passes through the central portion of the cap or is attached to the under surface thereof through a hole formed in the upper part of the section 0, its lower edge being, in the act of fastening, turned or folded upon the under surface of the upper part of said section.

The ball member of the fastening may be attached to project upwardly or downwardly from the material, and the other socket or clasp member of course is attached to the material, so that its opening shall be opposite the ball, and upon the movement of the two members of the fastening toward each other, or the movement of one in relation to the other, the ball is caused to enter the hole 0 and the jaws or yielding sides a, yielding or opening outwardly, permit the passage of the expanded portion of the stud, and then close upon the. neck thereof, substantially as shown in Fig. 13.

\Vhen a washer is used for securing the stud in place, as in Fig. 6, it will be seen that it prevents the tubular portion of the eyelet within the material from being spread or affected by the pressure which shapes the head; and it will also be noticed that after the head has thus been formed the washer is held locked down upon the upper surface of the material.

The uses to which this stud maybe put are many. It may be used as a substitute for the ball member of the fastening for gloves and other articles of the various Letters Patent granted to me; or it may be used as a shoestud, as a button, or with any fastening device adapted to be used with it.

I am aware of the patent to Albert G. Mead, No. 325,688, dated September 8, 1885, and I understand the construction of the fastening therein described. One memberof said fastening has a socket or spring portion; but said spring portion is not formed from a flat blank having recessed ends by bending or folding the ends of the blank downward andinward, but by the extension of the metal of a suitably-formed blank by drawing; and I do not claim such form of socket herein.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The combination, in a fastening for gloves and other articles, of a stud ormember of a fastening formed from a cap-eyelet A, having a flange a, which rests upon the under surface of the material to which the eyelet is attached, which eyelet extends through a hole in the material and is provided with a washer 12 upon the upper or outer surface of the material, and which stud is expanded or enlarged above or without the washer, with the other or female member of the fastening,

comprising a section C, having the recess 0 bent to form the yielding section 0", and a cap D, adapted to receive the material to which the member is secured, and the upper section. 0, to which it is fastened by one or more fastenings extending through thematerial, as and for the purposes specified.

2. The member of a fastening device comprising the section O, having the recesses c in the yielding sections 0 and the cap D, attached thereto, as described, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The section 0 of a socket-fastening, made from a fiat blank 0, having recessed ends bent to bring the recesses opposite each other, all

substantially as and for the purposes described.

WM. S. RICHARDSON.

\Vitnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, J. M. DOLAN. 

